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Bringing together their respective areas of expertise, Edelman and the Strategic Investor Initiative (SII) at Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP) have partnered to release an overview of emerging practices in disclosures of long-term plans made at CEO Investor Forums.

Business needs to work harder, smarter and faster to build a sustainable future. Time is simply running out.

As the world grapples with climate emergency, Extinction rebellion, investor pressure, hyper-global inequalities and biodiversity loss, the pressure for business to act now has never been more important. . 2020 is a critically important year with imminent deadlines looming and setting the new wave of ambitious targets for the next decade.

30 Days. 25 engagements. 1,500 volunteer hours. 

That’s just a snapshot of Comerica Bank’s community engagement throughout the state of Michigan during the bank’s National Days of Service initiative. What that doesn’t include are the many lives positively impacted by the extensive and compassionate outreach.

T. Rowe Price has released its latest Corporate Responsibility Report, demonstrating its efforts to improve the lives of its clients, associates, and community members. The report specifically addresses the firm’s initiatives to promote financial security, resilient communities, environmental sustainability, and unique perspectives and diversity within its workforce.

Nearly nine-in-10 (87%) of Gen Zers are worried for the environment and the planet, according to the 2019 Porter Novelli/Cone Gen Z Purpose Study. The study, surveying Americans ages 14-22, examines this emerging generation’s expectations of and attitudes toward company involvement in social and environmental issues – and the actions they are willing to take to positively impact topics they care about.

CEOs and business leaders from North America’s most innovative, responsible brands will descend on New York to learn how to lead the decade of action at The Responsible Business Summit New York, March 17-18, 2020.

As part of its continuing efforts to empower companies to drive long-term business success through positive societal impact, Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP) announced that Fran Horowitz, CEO, Abercrombie & Fitch Co., (A&F Co.) has joined the organization’s distinguished Board of Directors.

The BSR Conference 2019 kicks off in three weeks, covering some of today’s most talked about issues and welcoming speakers such as:

• Shannon Watts, Founder, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America

We’ve been taking from the environmental future for the economic present and we’re now on the cusp of a decade of consequences. A climate emergency, global social inequalities, biodiversity loss and increased investor and consumer pressure for business to act. Business needs to step up ambitions to tackle and adapt to the changing climate.

We need action. New ways of collaborating. New business models. New forms of investments.